Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
""Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
"The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal (Nature Communications,"Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium").
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
when coupled with a drug developed at the University of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
"said Mary jane Shultz, Ph d.,professor of chemistry in the School of arts and Sciences at Tufts University."
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
Scientists and engineers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), headquartered at the University of New south wales (UNSW),
Now, the CQC2T collaboration, involving theoretical and experimental researchers from the University of Melbourne and UNSW, has designed such a device.
"says University of Melbourne Professor Lloyd Hollenberg, Deputy Director of the CQC2T who led the work with colleague Dr Charles Hill."
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
The electron microscope images, created by scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory with partners from Stony Brook University and Rockefeller University,
an essential function for every living cell,"said Huilin Li, a biologist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University."
and provided by Roxana Georgescu in Michael O'Donnell's research group at Rockefeller University.
"several University of Delaware researchers show how a new peptide-based hydrogel could one day make that reconnection process easier to perform
Konstantin Novoselov's lab at the University of Manchester UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors.
a team of bioengineers at Rice university and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
#Scientists discover the gene that will open the door for space-based food production Queensland University of Technology (QUT) scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials,
and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer, Parkinson and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook University researchers Hedok Lee, Phd, Helene Benveniste, MD, Phd, and colleagues, discovered that a lateral sleeping position is the best position to most efficiently remove waste from the brain.
Dr. Benveniste, Principal investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of medicine, has used dynamic contrast MRI for several years to examine the glymphatic pathway in rodent models.
Their colleagues at the University of Rochester including Lulu Xie, Rashid Deane and Maiken Nedergaard, Phd,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
including Lohitash Karumbaiah of the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center, has developed a brain-friendly extracellular matrix environment of neuronal cells that contain very little foreign material.
and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue
and is chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University,
Charlene Betourney University of Georgiaimage Source: The image is credited to the researchersoriginal Research: Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
explains the study lead author, William Eric Sponsel, MD, of the University of Texas at San antonio, Department of Biomedical engineering.
explained letter co-author Paul Artes, Phd, of Plymouth University, Department of Eye and Visual Sciences.
Along with co-author Jonathan Denniss, Phd, University of Nottingham, Visual Neuroscience Group, their letter analyzed a new cohort of glaucoma patients in which hat essentially
Co-author Ted Maddess, Phd, of the Australian National University, Center of Excellence in Vision Science, explains that these patterns mimic structures found at the very back of the brain, known as ocular dominance columns.
#Giving Paralyzed People a Voice A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University.
A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University. hen it comes to teaching our invention to recognise words and phrases,
#Oxytocin Delivering Nasal Device to Treat Mental illness Researchers at the University of Oslo have tested a new device for delivering hormone treatments for mental illness through the nose.
causing cells to experience severe power failures, according to new work by researchers at Temple University School of medicine.
and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of medicine (TUSM), shows that the protein, spastic paraplegia 7 (SPG7), is the central component of the so-called permeability transition pore (PTP),
By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
Now a group of researchers at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) is putting liquid crystals to work in a completely unexpected realm:
as well as Aslin Izmitli-Apik and Nicholas Abbott of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. They relied crucially on theoretical molecular models,
and University of Washington researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student, a breakthrough in AI research.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
The researchers/Carnegie mellon University. Each of the fingers on the robotic hand mimic the skeletal structure of a human finger, with a fingertip,
working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
In newly reported research that could help provide answers, scientists at Tufts University, in collaboration with the University of Florida, have developed a novel approach that uses artificial intelligence to illuminate cellular processes
and suggest possible targets to correct aberrations. The findings, published Oct 6 in Science Signaling online in advance of print, are believed to mark the first time artificial intelligence has been used to discover a molecular model that explains why some groups of cells deviate from normal development during embryogenesis,
In addition to Levin and Lobikin, paper authors were Douglas J. Blackiston and Elizabeth Tkachenko of the Department of biology and Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology, Tufts University;
Daniel Lobo, formerly of the Levin laboratory and now at the University of Maryland in Baltimore;
and Christopher J. Martyniuk of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology and Department of Physiological Sciences, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida.
Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,
and progression of disease, says senior author Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and professor of neurology at the University of California,
and brain macrophages, says Scott Zamvil, MD, Phd, a professor of neurology at the University of California,
Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are nearing development of a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer disease,
DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University. can think of a single patient who wouldn take steps to prevent the progression of Alzheimer
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
#Step Closer to Prosthetic Limbs That Recreate Sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.
Associate professor in the Department of Organismal biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study. ow we understand the nuts and bolts of stimulation,
private companies and academic institutions, including the Johns hopkins university Applied Physics laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh. Bensmaia and his colleagues at UCHICAGO are working specifically on the sensory aspects of these limbs.
Consulting with professors from the College of Veterinary medicine in Cornell University, the company established the direction a dog wags its tail directly reflected its mood.
a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
Max Pfeiffer of the University of Hannover was the driver. His project directs electrical currentmovie Camera into the students'sartorius, the longest muscle in the human body,
Evan Peck of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania says Pfeiffer's system will stop us being chained to our smartphones."
"says John Aplin of the University of Manchester, UK. During pregnancy, the lining of the uterus behaves quite differently to normal:
"says Graham Burton of the University of Cambridge, whose team discovered in 2002 that the uterus lining not the mother's blood nourishes the embryo."
Andres Clarens at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team say pumping CO2 into the wells could prevent this.
a petroleum geologist at Newcastle University in the UK but unnecessary. ractures rarely extend past a few hundred metres above the shale reservoir,
says team member Miles Montgomery at the University of Toronto, Canada. ou could build it in situ, almost like designer tissue.
says Jay Zhang of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, although he adds that clinical applications are some way off. he real test is how it works in vivo,
says Lonnie Shea of the University of Michigan at Ann arbor, one of the developers. So far the idea has been tested in mice.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. he physics is there, but of course you still have to demonstrate it.
and night, says Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge. This means there is no need to wake up to check blood sugar levels throughout the night.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
says Thomas Angelini at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led the research. Print for your life Angelini team has used already the technique to print material out of living cells including human blood-vessel and canine kidney cells.
says Neil Roberts at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The water content of our cells doesn tend to vary much,
Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
Now, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, has taken a significant step forward by making a cloak for infrared radiation,
says Debbie Hay at the University of Auckland in New zealand. here has been a great deal of debate around the mechanisms of migraine.
To investigate, Simon Akerman at New york University and Peter Goadsby at Kings College London, UK,
Now Joel Carpenter at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and his colleagues have demonstrated a workaround.
Ludwig Aigner at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria and his colleagues targeted a set of receptors in the brain that, when activated,
says James Nicoll, a neuropathologist at the University of Southampton, UK. Aigner agrees he will start by testing the drug in people with Parkinson disease,
Kenneth Forbus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is confident that services like this will prove useful in the future. achines that help us filter could increase the rate at
"says Carrie Albertin, a biologist at the University of Chicago. As technology to sequence DNA has gotten faster and cheaper,
And after a team at the University of Chicago started sequencing a particular octopus species,
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
of Salamanca University Hospital, said in a statement. He and his colleagues hope the better fit will mean fewer complications in the long run.
And that search brought him to a team of astronomers at Leiden University including Frans Snik, Matthew Kenworthy,
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
By contrast, the laser-driven system in combination with phase-contrast X-ray tomography only requires a university laboratory to view soft tissues.
#Activated glass chip creates widest wavelength range Scientists from University of Twente research institute MESA+(Twente,
and the universities of Münster, also Germany, and Oxford and Exeter, both UK, has developed the first all-optical permanent on-chip memory.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university added, he memory we have developed is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
and University of Ghent team describes the development as the irst highly scalable monolithic solutionto a longstanding problem:
said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
In 2011, Dr. Mcewen (a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) spotted dark streaks sloping down some of Mars canyons and mountains.
#Journey of an adorable hitchhiking robot itchbotended in Philadelphia A social research experimental robot named itchbotwas made by Dr. David Harris Smith of Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Ontario,
and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends.
According to Rose Ricciardelli, assistant professor of sociology at Memorial University in Newfoundland, who also authored the study,
According to Michael Cunningham, a psychologist who teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville,
Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
. in collaboration with engineers from the University of Bradford and with funding from Innovate U k.,a government funding agency.
an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University who led the project.""Human skin contains thousands of tactile sensory units only in the fingertip,
Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
Hypercam is a low-cost multispectral camera developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult
Courtesy of the University of Washington. Hypercam illuminates a scene with 17 wavelengths. Software analyzes the resulting images to present the user with the most useful information."
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
Courtesy of the University of Washington. When Hypercam captured images of a person's hand, for instance,
"said University of Washington professor Shwetak Patel.""With this kind of camera, you could go to the grocery store
a professor in Viking studies at the University of Nottingham, translated the recipe from the Old english in Bald Leechbook,
Now researchers from the University of British columbia have figured out a way to change the type of blood donated by volunteers,
Now, researchers from the University of California Irvine have isolated the source of the creature's disappearing act:
made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille, France, manages to fly without one.
#Terminator 2 like"smart liquid metal"developed by Tsinghua University researchers These diagrams from the Advanced Materials journal show stages of the Tsinghua University experiment,
and movement/fusion of gallium alloy droplets (e). Tsinghua University scientists led by Jing Liu, have discovered a'smart'liquid metal alloy that moves on its own.
In 2014, both Tsinghua University and North carolina State university discovered that applying electrical currents to gallium alloys (like the liquid metal) would allow for controlled shape-shifiting in the metal
you'd need a substance like Tsinghua University's self powered liquid metal to avoid those embarrassing and inconvenient electrical cords.
At the University of Cambridge, scientists have created a"mother robot"that can not only build smaller robots,
Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company, developed a system to add microscopic indentations to the surface of a product.
"said Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies at Brown University.""It really does matter what the actual cap is."
Now a team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a flexible electronic sensor that can measure blood flow on top of the skin or
Aipoly is a smartphone app that acts as an intelligent assistant to the non-sighted user Students at Singularity University Silicon valley-based benefit corporation, educational program,
Singularity University estimates that two-thirds of the visually impaired people in the world will become smartphone users in the next five years, making technology like Aipoly essential for this growing market.
A relatively recent addition to the university, Park is a"top-talent"educator who was recruited for her leadership in a high-impact, high-demand area"in
which the university wants to continue to position itself as a global leader. The area in which Park has established herself as an expert is the field of study related to the creation and monitoring of delivery vehicles that carry medicine to specific locations within the body.
In fact, it was the superb medical facilities she would have access to as a professor at UC that aided in her decision to accept the position at the university.
Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;
who holds the title of the L-3 Communications Cyber Faculty Fellow of Computer science, said.
and has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one of the many powerful technologies made possible by a tiny device called a SQUID, short for superconducting quantum interference device.
and is used already on a daily basis in colleges and universities around the world. Chesca and his colleagues are currently working on optimizing the shape
For this project, Bartels lab greatly benefited from the complementary expertise between the two universities,
Other participants include scientists from Manipal University, India; GSI-Giessen, Germany; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany;
Japan Atomic energy agency; and the joint Institute for Nuclear research in Russia. The results are published in the journal Physics Letters B. The Lab Dawn Shaughnessy, Ken Moody,
Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist.
A scale prototype of THAWT has been stress tested successfully twice at Newcastle University. The developers say the system could be used in waters off France and many Asian countries, such as Japan, China, the Koreas, Indonesia, India,
Developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, the experimental system has been produced in different shapes and sizes to suit various locations on the body, such as the finger,
William Laurance, a professor at Australia James Cook University and another of the study co-authors
Dr Hsieh and his colleagues from Tel aviv University California Institute of technology, Iowa State university, and the University of Kentucky, made the discovery
while testing a laser-based measurement technique that they recently developed to look for what is called multipolar order. o understand multipolar order,
it brilliant, said Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol and the Public University of Navarre, a team member and the first author of a paper in the journal Nature Communications.
Bruce Drinkwater of the University of Bristol. ut here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved. n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
added co-author Prof Sriram Subramanian of the University of Sussex and Ultrahaptics Ltd. The team used an array of 64 miniature loudspeakers (driven at 40khz with 15vpp;
led by scientists at the University of Leeds and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the"Akt pathway,"a signaling pathway within cells that drives cancer formation and the spread of cancers
Lead author Professor John Ladbury, Dean of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and Professor of Mechanistic Biology, said,
"Dr Zahra Timsah, University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds'School of Molecular and Cellular biology, who was the lead researcher on the study,
It involved researchers from the University of Leeds, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Health Science Center at Houston t
Researchers at the University of California, San diego (UCSD) School of medicine and the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that, 30 years ago,
said lead author Mark Walker, Ph d. a Professor of Biological sciences at the University of Wollongong. n the case of the invasive strep clone,
and Jason Mcarthur of the University of Wollongong; Katrin Dinkla and Gurshan Chhatwal of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany;
Rita Kansal and Malak Kotb of the University of Tennessee-Memphis; Ramy Aziz of the University of Cairo, Egypt;
Amy Simpson, UCSD Medical student, and John Buchanan, UCSD Assistant Research Scientist in Pediatrics
#Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism Researchers are saying a new analysis of data on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder disputes a commonly held belief that autism results from the chance combinations
a Cold Spring Harbotr Laboratory assistant professor and on faculty at the New york Genome Center, finds that"autism genes"-i e.,
a postdoctoral scholar in Bogyo's lab who is now an assistant professor at the University of Vermont,
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